NASA’s Juno probe to fly directly over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Storm on July 10
As part of a scientific investigation that began with an August 2011 launch, NASA’s Juno spacecraft’s mission began in earnest when Juno arrived at Jupiter in July 2016. The NASA probe’s next milestone is a bird’s eye look at Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a 16,000 kilometer (10,000-miles) wide storm. Juno’s cloud-penetrating equipment including Imager and JunoCam, will be science’s first unobstructed close-up of the most iconic feature of Jupiter. The massive storm was first observed in 1830 and has possibly existed for more than 350 years. Juno has orbited Jupiter now for a year, and has about 8...
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